sore hands from walk behind

My hands are always sore at the start of the season from my walk behind and this year I have more work than usual using it instead of my rider. What gets me is the metal operator presence control lever. It works on a blister on the palm of my hand. Has anybody found some sort of rubber wrap to ease the tendency for blisters? I tried some rubber spray compound but it rubbed off pretty quick.

The only thing that I can think of off hand would be the rubber tape that they use to wrap handle bar grips on bikes, I think it is actually called grip tape. One other place to look would be in some of the "woker safty equiptment catalogs", they come up with some pretty inovative solutions to long term problems in the work place.
Good Luck,
Jim L

I have a 36" Scag hydro. I think part of the problem may be that I need to adjust my tracking. On one side, the reverse is almost non existent, but I haven't adjusted it yet. That's one of today's projects. I don't want to wear gloves because of the heat here in the summer if I don't have too. Has anybody tried those fingerless gel gloves?

I have a scag also and the operator handles kill me. I am gonna run to home depot and get the latex you dip tools in to coat the handles. I am hoping this will help. Eventually they will callous up and I wont have a problem until next year. My first full day was yesterday and my hands are sore as heck!